Excellent, another volleyball stadium to tick off when I'm back in Korea this winter. I've always been impressed by the atmosphere at Korean volleyball games, it's as good as the atmosphere at baseball games and with the added advantage of having something worth watching as well.

Ah, not the goalscorer I was thinking of, it was the captain on the day. Can't find the article I (mis)remembered reading but it is this guy here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McIlvenny I'd never have brought it up if I'd done a little research and found out that he was a soapdodger. No wonder...

Ahh, back in the good old days when Britain was too good for the World Cup. If I remember rightly at least Scotland did play a small part in the 1950 World Cup with the USA goalscorer in the 1-0 win over England being very familiar with the land of haggis and irn bru. It'll be nice to see Iceland qu...

eujin wrote:Whisper it very quietly, but Scotland are second in their group with only one match left to go.

Yeah, not sure which route of not qualifying we are going to go down this time. The last minute Slovenian equalizer? Or maybe we'll go to the play offs and inevitably be drawn against Italy or Portugal.

I agree the fact that football has moved away from local players to teams made up of the best players from around the country, and the world is definitely a big factor. It's not so much the money, it's that if you play for Bayern Munich, Barcelona or PSG then you are going to win things and you've g...

Nah, still not buying it that Champions League football is the cause of all this. France isn't an outlier at all. Randomly going through Wikipedia pages shows England has had four different winners in the last five years. Spain have had three. Romania three, Norway three. Admittedly Portugal has had...

I don't think you can entirely blame the Champions league, you get spells like that in football. A quick flick through the Wikipedia pages of the various countries shows - Ludogorets may have won the last five Bulgarian titles but Levksi and CSKA Sofia have split the vast majority of the previous 70...

Some nutter in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jul/06/football-matt-walker-55-nation-uefa-adventure I'm off to Deventer on Monday in the Netherlands. One of my favourite grounds. Brilliant idea for a year off. I'm pretty jealous, but I have been to Gori (Stalin's hometown), ...

Of course there is no such thing as an unlucky season. But there are conspiracies at work. Just look at how I was regularly cheated out of prediction league trophies, year after year. Disgraceful. Clearly there are duck fetishists among the top brass in K3 towers. And while we are on conspiracy theo...